Archive for November, 2005
Friday, November 18th, 2005
- The previous release’s fix for “Buy Reagents” broke buying things that come in stacks (e.g. vials in pack of 5)… Fixed.
Full release notes: AutoCraft | 14 Comments »
Friday, November 18th, 2005
- I missed [Azerothian Diamond] when first compiling the tables… it’s included now.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: Gemologist
Friday, November 18th, 2005
- We now keep track of what recipes which characters (on which realms) know; the
/rc report and reagents commands now only list recipes the current character knows by default. Use /rc report all [skillname] to list all recipes known by all characters on a realm (within a specific skill, if given), or /rc report allrealms [skillname] for all recipes ReagentCost has seen regardless of character/realm.
- Better handling of Auctioneer’s LoadOnDemand nature — you should be less likely to see “missing required dependency” or “installed but non-functional” errors, and we’re smarter about when to automatically load Auctioneer if it’s needed but not yet loaded.
- Includes support for WoWEcon as a price data source, thanks to Jonathan Roy. I’ve not tested this myself, as I’m not wild about addons that involve separate executable programs, so it’s not “officially” supported.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: ReagentCost | 3 Comments »
Friday, November 18th, 2005
- The “Buy Reagents” button formerly didn’t work right if buying a large quantity of an item that a merchant sells singly. (e.g. trying to by 24 [Hot Spices].) Fixed.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: AutoCraft | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 18th, 2005
- The item IDs for [Pattern: Warbear Harness] and [Pattern: Warbear Woolies] changed in a recent patch; updated tables to reflect both variations.
- [Glowing Scorpid Blood] is advertised as a Darkmoon Faire turnin.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: AdSpace | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 18th, 2005
- Includes a French localization by Corwin Whitehorn. (Still, only the names of abilities, beast families, and other basic information is currently localized. In order to localize the entire built-in beast ability database, I’ll need mappings of English beast names to their localized equivalents. Users of WoW in other languages can help by emailing their SavedVariables/GFW_HuntersHelper.lua file once they’ve tamed or cast Beast Lore on a handful of critters.)
- Made some additions and corrections to beast ability tables.
- Includes refinements to code shared with other GFW mods.
Full release notes: Hunter's Helper | 11 Comments »
Sunday, November 6th, 2005
- You know, I’m pretty sure that back when I started on Hunter’s Helper, you couldn’t find out about a beast’s tamed abilities using Beast Lore… but I recently noticed that you can now. So, some related improvements:
- If you use Beast Lore on a beast which has tamed abilities, you won’t see those abilities listed twice in the tooltip (once by Beast Lore and once by Hunter’s Helper).
- We parse the Beast Lore-enhanced tooltip, and can thus learn for future reference (in tooltips and
/hh find) which skills a beast has without needing to tame it.
- The text we add to tooltips matches the text you see when using Beast Lore (with an accordingly localized label).
- We recolor the tooltip’s “Tamed Abilities:” line when it’s added by Beast Lore to show which abilities you already know and which you haven’t learned yet.
- First steps towards localized releases:
- If we don’t recognize the name of the zone you’re in when you use
/hh find, we’ll fall back to one of several default zones (chosen based on your race or faction if we can parse them) so that the search can proceed, instead of failing to search at all.
- Our built-in tables are now indexed by locale-independent spell identifiers wherever possible, and we automatically reindex dynamically discovered info to match whenever we can. What does this mean? If you’re running a non-English localization of WoW, Hunter’s Helper might not show much in the tooltips or
/hh find results at first… but once you’ve opened your Beast Training window and/or tamed a few mobs (enough for us to match English spell names to localized names), we’ll be able to provide additional search results. Since we can’t automatically map localized zone and mob names to their English equivalents, the additional results may be in English.
- There’s now a localization.lua file with keys for known pet ability names and beast families. Users of other WoW languages are welcome to edit this file to provide the localized equivalents of these names — send back your edits and I’ll include them in future releases. (The more Hunter’s Helper knows about localized names, the better it can access its built-in database when running under other WoW languages.)
- Our built-in database of zone names is now (mostly) localized into French, German, and Korean, thanks to contributors who helped localize Fizzwidget AdSpace and the listings at WoWGuru.com.
- If we see new beast ability info that isn’t in our static tables (which can now happen when mousing over a beast that has the Beast Lore “debuff”, in addition to upon taming a beast), the message requesting that you email me about it will appear no more than once per minute.
- In the past, we could sometimes run into situations where we wouldn’t notice we’d successfully tamed a beast with new skills, and then end up associating some other pet’s skills with it later. Added some checks to prevent such situations.
- Added, updated, and corrected several database entries thanks to user contributions. (Notably, all three species of Wind Serpent in the Sunken Temple have Lightning Breath 5.)
Full release notes: Hunter's Helper | 9 Comments »
